Improvement in bale-ties



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Bale-Ties. v N0 156 752. Patented Nov.10,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

GEORGE N. BEARD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,752, dated November10, 1874; application tiled September 22, 1874.

CASE A.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. BEARD, of St. Louis, in the county of St.Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a certain Improved Bale-Tie,of which the following is a specification:

This improvement consists in combining a cleat riveted parallel to andat one end of the band with a shouldered slot at the other end, asshown, so that the cleat can only be inserted when the band ends lieangularly in respect to each other, and when the ends are drawn in linea firm lock is made.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an under perspective view.Fig. 2 is an inside view, locked. Fig. 3 is an inside view in process ofengagement. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section.

Ais the cleat end of the band, and B is the cleat. The shank b of thecleat is of quadrangular or rectangular form, so that it is not liableto turn in the hoop. It passes through the end of the hoop andre-enforce a, and is riveted as shown. The head of the cleat is setstraight with the hoop. It has a straight bearing, b formed by notchingit out at 12 The notch is made so as to admit the thickness of the hoopend 0, as shown in Fig. 4, the straight bearing b thus being formed tohold the ends A O in close contact when the tie is locked. The heel b ofthe cleat has a shallow notch, b which receives the end 0 of the slotwhen the tie is shouldered or six-sided. The sides 0 c and end 0 areoblique to the hoop, the portion 0 is parallel with the sides of thehoop, and the ends 0 and c are transverse to the hoop.

When the cleat is being inserted in the shouldered slot its side is keptin contact with the side 0, and its straight bearing b passes throughbetween the sides 0 and 0 but when the cleat is inserted, the ends A Oare allowed to become parallel, and the side of the cleat rests againstthe portion 0 and the shoulder c c enters the recess or notch b abovethe straight hearing I). The end 0 also enters the notch b above theheel b and thus the heel and straight bearing hold the ends Aand O incontact, while the shoulder c prevents the longitudinal movement of thecleat in the slot, so as to disengage the end 0 from the heel b Thetensile strain comes upon the end 0 and this is transverse to the bandand at the middle of it, so that there is no side strain upon the band.

1 claim as new- The cleat B, having the notched straight bearing b N,the notched heel b b, and a quadrangular or rectangular shank, b, saidcleat being riveted parallel to the band, in combination with theshouldered slot 0 c c c 0 0 having its portion 0 parallel with the band,substantially as set forth.

GEORGE N. BEARD. Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, ROBERT BURNS.

